Discovered 1985 Sept. 11 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.

Richard Godwin (b. 1955), a board member of the Space Frontier Foundation, served as executive director of The Watch, a support organization for NEO detection. His brother Robert Godwin (b. 1958) is a space expert and space-history researcher. Together they founded a space book company and write extensively on space.

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